I used to hear people say "the devil's in the details.". Maybe everything is in the details. I'm really bad at repentance. But deep down I know the only hope I have is a Saviour who knows me completely and holds onto me like a bulldog with really good teeth. That gives me hope.
One of the practices enforced by the Dead Sea Scrolls community in many of their writings was the functional midrashing to reinforce the personification (as spiritual entities) of things we'd call abstract concepts. [Mike Heiser, a la Unseen Realm and related]. Now when I read the like of "the fear of the Lord", "Steadfast Lovingkindness", "the word of the LORD", I think about what kind of spirit is being signified. According to Luke's recording of Peter's understanding of the Back Story of the Good News [Acts 3:19-20], repentance as a practice was tied to a time table some members of the metaphysical dimensions [Dr Strange] don't want kicked off.
There is a way out of this but it involves a much closer proximity to the ground and a willingness to not confuse meekness - personal, humbled, sincere meekness - to weakness.
“ At the beginning of this century, a parent tried to get me fired for declining to say the Pledge of Allegiance. ”
They are aware of this little document called the Emancipation Proclamation?
Of course they are. That’s why they are mad in the first place.
I used to hear people say "the devil's in the details.". Maybe everything is in the details. I'm really bad at repentance. But deep down I know the only hope I have is a Saviour who knows me completely and holds onto me like a bulldog with really good teeth. That gives me hope.
One of the practices enforced by the Dead Sea Scrolls community in many of their writings was the functional midrashing to reinforce the personification (as spiritual entities) of things we'd call abstract concepts. [Mike Heiser, a la Unseen Realm and related]. Now when I read the like of "the fear of the Lord", "Steadfast Lovingkindness", "the word of the LORD", I think about what kind of spirit is being signified. According to Luke's recording of Peter's understanding of the Back Story of the Good News [Acts 3:19-20], repentance as a practice was tied to a time table some members of the metaphysical dimensions [Dr Strange] don't want kicked off.
There is a way out of this but it involves a much closer proximity to the ground and a willingness to not confuse meekness - personal, humbled, sincere meekness - to weakness.
“Meaning, I came to understand, is a consensual activity.” Yup.